Research Publication

January 2017 | Chapter

Term Structure of Uncertainty in the Macroeconomy

Lars Peter Hansen, Jaroslav Borovička

Dynamic economic models make predictions about impulse responses that characterize how macroeconomic processes respond to alternative shocks over different horizons. From the perspective of asset pricing, impulse responses quantify the exposure of macroeconomic processes and other cash flows to macroeconomic shocks. Financial markets provide compensations to investors who are exposed to these shocks. Adopting an asset pricing vantage point, we describe and apply methods for computing exposures to macroeconomic shocks and the implied compensations represented as elasticities over alternative payoff horizons. The outcome is a term structure of macroeconomic uncertainty.

 

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Volume: 2B, Chapter 20|Pages: 1641-1694|Title of book: Handbook of Macroeconomics|Editor(s): John B. Taylor, Harald Uhlig|Place of Publication: Netherlands and Great Britain|Publisher: Elsevier|Tags: Financial Market Linkages to the Macroeconomy, Uncertainty and Valuation|Export BibTeX >
@article{borovivckahansen:2016,
  title={Term Structure of Uncertainty in the Macroeconomy},
  author={Borovi{v{c}}ka, Jaroslav and Hansen, Lars Peter},
  journal={Handbook of Macroeconomics},
  volume={2},
  pages={1641--1696},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}